The Wedding Banquet vs What We Wanted to Be
What We Wanted to Be has the higher audience score (7.8/10 against 7.2/10 for The Wedding Banquet). What We Wanted to Be is the shorter watch at 1h 24m compared with 1h 43m. What We Wanted to Be is the older of the two (2024 against 2025). Both are comedy, drama, romance movies, so they suit a similar mood.
The Wedding Banquet
What We Wanted to Be| The Wedding Banquet | What We Wanted to Be | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.2/10 | ★ 7.8/10 |
| Year | 2025 | 2024 |
| Length | 1h 43m | 1h 24m |
| Genres | Comedy, Drama, Romance | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country | – | Argentina |
| Director | Andrew Ahn | Alejandro Agresti |
| Main cast | Joan Chen, Youn Yuh-jung, Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran | Eleonora Wexler, Luis Rubio, Antonio Agresti, Carlos Gorosito |
Synopsis
The Wedding Banquet
Frustrated with his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris and running out of time, Min makes a proposal: a green-card marriage with their friend Angela in exchange for her partner Lee's expensive IVF. Elopement plans are upended, however, when Min's grandmother surprises them with an extravagant Korean wedding banquet.
What We Wanted to Be
An impossible love story that begins outside a movie theater, continues in a café and could end with the two protagonists together… if real life wasn’t much more complicated than the movies. United by their love of cinema, these two main characters decide to live the lives they dreamed of and not the lives they are destined to live. In a series of encounters, imagination triumphs over reality and everyday reality takes a back seat.
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